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If disinflation continues and the inflation rate crosses below 0%, we turn from inflation to deflation since by definition "deflation" is a negative inflation rate. This is a relatively rare event, the last time that happened (before 2009) on an Annual Basis (prices were lower than year ago) was in 1955, although we have had deflation for a single month on a more regular basis (where prices fell compared to the previous month).

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So the FED decides QE2 is necessary and this time it purchases another $600 Billion of Longer Term Treasury Notes. The inflation rate increases to almost 4% but when QE2 stops the inflation rate begins falling again. Personally, I would love to see the inflation rate stay between 1 and 2% or better yet between 0% and 1%. In the long run steady low inflation rates benefit everyone as people can accurately judge their future costs and make sound business decisions. But the government prefers a higher inflation rate so it can repay its debts with "cheaper dollars." Inflation also erodes savings and causes consumers to act imprudently and spend more than they would if they had sound (unchanging) money. This is what the government means by "stimulating the economy" i.e. causing people to spend more than they would prudently do otherwise. The obvious long term effects are a society with more debt than it should have and thus we see crashes like we saw in 2008. Then the government has to "do something" so it prints more money to fix the problem it created by printing money in the first place. For more detail see:

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2014 began with 1.58% annual inflation in January rising to 2.13%% in May. Although monthly inflation for the first two months was 0.37% each, at 0.64% March had almost as much inflation as the previous two months combined and settling back down to 0.33% in April and 0.35% in May. But annualizing that rate would still result in 4.20% annual inflation, while annualizing March's rate would result in a whopping 7.68% total inflation for the year. Fortunately the first quarter is usually the highest and then typically inflation decreases and often ends in deflation in the last quarter of the year. Monthly inflation was negative (disinflationary) every month from July through November except September when it was slightly inflationary 0.08%.

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Since 2008, there has been a battle between inflation and deflation with the FED fighting against deflation. Now the FED has switched sides and is raising interest rates. Perhaps the rise we saw in inflation from July 2016 - February 2017 convinced them that it was safe to raise rates. On March 15, 2017 the Fed voted to raise its benchmark FED-funds rate by a quarter percentage point, to a range of 0.75% to 1% on the assumption that inflation was building (and because they were desperate to raise rates so they will have somewhere to go in the next recession). At its June 2017 meeting, they decided to raise it by another quarter percentage point bringing the benchmark rate to a (1.0% to 1.25%) range. Those were their target ranges. The following chart shows what the actual FED Funds rates turned out to be. From the chart we can see that it "stair stepped" up throughout 2017.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Prior to 2017, January's monthly inflation has averaged 0.28% since 2008 and the average would have been higher had 2015's monthly inflation rate not been negative . February has been averaging 0.38% with a low of 0.03%. March has averaged 0.58% but March 2017 at 0.08% was a mere fraction of that. The average for April is 0.32%. So at 0.30% April 2017 is very close to average. May's average is 0.34% so at 0.09% once again we have a very low month pulling the Annual Inflation rate lower.

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The red line is a 12 month moving average, meaning it is the average of the annual inflation rate as measured during the last 12 months. If the red line is pointing up we are in an inflationary trend. When the red line is pointing down we have "disinflation" i.e. prices aren't increasing as fast as they were before and when the black line falls below zero that is deflation (prices are actually falling).

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Note that the BLS rounded some of these months to Also worth noting: Annual deflation for the first five months of 2015 was primarily due to lower rather than a lack of FED money printing although the FED had tapered it's "Quantitative Easing" program. One major issue remains, i.e. the low which has resulted in a low and consequently a low inflation rate.